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Reading Lists for the School of Literature & English Studies


 * /English Literature - Read and discuss/ - participants form discussion groups
 * /English Literature - Read and write/ - participants read and then write essays

Collaborators

 * ...Alexander Tirk

Fiction

 * Major Authors
 * Louisa May Alcott
 * Margaret Atwood
 * Jane Austen
 * James Baldwin
 * Ray Bradbury
 * Anne Bronte
 * Charlotte Bronte
 * Emily Bronte
 * William S. Burroughs
 * Willa Cather
 * Michael Chabon
 * Raymond Chandler
 * Kate Chopin
 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * Philip K. Dick
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Ralph Ellison
 * James Ellroy
 * William Faulkner
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * William Gaddis
 * William H. Gass
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Robert Heinlen
 * Joseph Heller
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Frank Herbert
 * Aldous Huxley
 * Henry James
 * James Joyce
 * John Kennedy O'Toole
 * Jack Kerouac
 * Ken Kesey
 * Ursula LeGuin
 * Doris Lessing
 * Sinclair Lewis
 * Jack London
 * Herman Melville
 * Arthur Miller
 * Henry Miller
 * George Orwell
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Thomas Pynchon
 * Ayn Rand
 * Tom Robbins
 * Richard Russo
 * J.D. Salinger
 * William Shakespeare
 * Gertrude Stein
 * John Steinbeck
 * Lawrence Sterne
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Mark Twain
 * William T. Vollmann
 * Kurt Vonnegut
 * David Foster Wallace
 * Robert Penn Warren
 * Edith Wharton
 * Jeanette Winterson


 * Important Works
 * The Age of Innocence
 * Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 * Atlas Shrugged
 * Big Sur
 * Cannery Row
 * Catch 22
 * Catcher in the Rye
 * Confederacy of Dunces
 * Demon Box
 * Dr. Sax
 * Dune
 * East of Eden
 * Elmer Gantry
 * Empire Falls
 * Fahrenheit 451
 * For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * Hamlet
 * the Handmaid's Tale
 * Herland
 * Infinite Jest
 * Invisible Man
 * Kings Blood Royal
 * Last of the Mohicans
 * the Lathe of Heaven
 * LIttle Women
 * Look Homeward, Angel
 * Lost Horizon
 * Main Street
 * Memoirs of a Survivor
 * Moby Dick
 * My Antonia
 * Naked Lunch
 * Neuromancer
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * Pride and Prejudice
 * Of Mice and Men
 * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * On The Road
 * the Song of the Lark
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * The Beautiful and Damned
 * The Grapes of Wrath
 * The Great Gatsby
 * The Lord of the Flies
 * The Love of the Last Tycoon
 * The Martian Chronicles
 * The Old Man and the Sea
 * The Recognitions
 * The Rosy Crucifixion
 * The Satanic Verses
 * Sense and Sensibility
 * Sexing the Cherry
 * The Sun Also Rises
 * The Winter's Tale
 * Things Fall Apart
 * The Town and the City
 * This Side of Paradise
 * To Kill a Mockingbird
 * Tortilla Flat
 * Walden
 * The Yellow Wallpaper

Poetry

 * Major Poets
 * John Ashberry
 * John Berryman
 * E.E. Cummings
 * Emily Dickinson
 * John Donne
 * Thomas Stearns Eliot
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Robert Frost
 * Langston Hughes
 * Kenneth Koch
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * Frank O'Hara
 * Sylvia Plath
 * Ted Hughes
 * W. H. Auden
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Ezra Pound
 * Anne Sexton
 * Wallace Stevens
 * Dylan Thomas
 * Walt Whitman

Major Authors and Works in Languages other than English
Ancient -- for a more extensive list, please visit the Classics Department


 * Chuang Chou, Chuang Tzu
 * Gilgamesh
 * Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey
 * Plato: The Apology of Socrates
 * Sappho: lyric poetry
 * Tu Fu: lyric poetry

Early Modern/The Renaissance -- Prose and Drama
 * Boccaccio: **The Decameron: Folktale Collection
 * Calderon: Life is a Dream
 * Castiglione: the Book of the Courtier
 * Geoffrey Chaucer: **The Canterbury Tales
 * Dante: the Divine Comedy
 * Marguerite de Navarre: the Heptameron
 * Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book
 * The Arabian Nights: Folktale Collection

The 18th Century -- Prose and Drama
 * Basho: The Narrow Road to the Interior
 * Goethe: the Sorrows of young Werther
 * Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
 * Montesquieu: the Persian Letters
 * Jean Jacques Rousseau: the Confessions, the Social Contract: the Discourse on Inequality
 * Voltaire: Candide, Micromegas, the Ingenu

The 19th Century -- Prose and Drama
 * Goethe: Elective Affinities, Faust
 * Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris, Les Miserables
 * Ibsen: The Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck
 * John Ruskin: **Sesame and Lilies
 * George Sand: the Intimate Journal

Major 20th Century writers -- Prose and Drama
 * Tadeusz Borowski: This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
 * Calvino: Cosmicomics
 * Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague
 * Colette: The Vagabond, Cheri, Gigi
 * Marguerite Duras: Hiroshima, mon Amour
 * Gunther Grass: The Tin Drum
 * Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher
 * Franz Kafka: The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis
 * Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ
 * Haruki Murakami: The Windup Bird Chronicle
 * Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis

Poets

 * Akhmatova
 * Seamus Heaney
 * Mahadeviakka
 * Mirabai
 * Rilke
 * Rumi
 * Szymborska
 * William Butler Yeats
 * Pablo Neruda